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Tom Linden <tom@kednos-remove.com> writes:
>OpenVMS uses version numbers on files from 1 to 32767m thus, e.g.,
>file.pli;1
>
>in transferring multiple files using mget is there a way to drop
>the version numbers so the file appears as file.pli ?

Not within PSFTP. You'll have to pre- or post-process the filenames (or
have something clever controlling PSFTP using multiple "get"s).

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:22:42 -0800, Jacob Nevins
<jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> (This is not a terminals question. Followups set.)
>
> Tom Linden <tom@kednos-remove.com> writes:
>> OpenVMS uses version numbers on files from 1 to 32767m thus, e.g.,
>> file.pli;1
>>
>> in transferring multiple files using mget is there a way to drop
>> the version numbers so the file appears as file.pli ?
>
> Not within PSFTP. You'll have to pre- or post-process the filenames (or
> have something clever controlling PSFTP using multiple "get"s).

With ftp server running on OpenVMS I am able to use standard ftp client
which comes with windows and it drops the version number. So psftp is
somehow behaving differently.



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>>>>> "TL" == Tom Linden <tom@kednos-remove.com> writes:

TL> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:22:42 -0800, Jacob Nevins
TL> <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

>> (This is not a terminals question. Followups set.)
>>
>> Tom Linden <tom@kednos-remove.com> writes:
>>> OpenVMS uses version numbers on files from 1 to 32767m thus, e.g.,
>>> file.pli;1
>>>
>>> in transferring multiple files using mget is there a way to drop
>>> the version numbers so the file appears as file.pli ?
>> Not within PSFTP. You'll have to pre- or post-process the
>> filenames (or have something clever controlling PSFTP using
>> multiple "get"s).

TL> With ftp server running on OpenVMS I am able to use standard ftp
TL> client which comes with windows and it drops the version number.
TL> So psftp is somehow behaving differently.

Well, seeing as psftp and the SSH server it's talking to are completely
different pieces of software than the ftp/ftpd you're referring to, using
a different protocol, this is not surprising. I'm not sure I see your
point.

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